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As this video shows, wars are extremely profitable.

The President Who Cannot Defend Himself is once again being threatened by forces who, it is imagined, will take away votes to which he is supposedly entitled.

It seems strange how many people are unaware that the US and NATO allies armed and funded al-Qaeda.

Cointelpro Continues

On March 8, 1971, a cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents that they then mailed anonymously to several U.S. papers. They were members of the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. They selected the night of the “Fight of the Century,” the boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, when most people would be glued to their radios. The documents revealed the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program — COINTELPRO — which was a series of covert, and often illegal, activity. The FBI conducted surveillance, infiltration, discreditation, and the disruption of domestic political organizations — including actions that led to murder.

The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party.
Recently we've had the revelations of the Twitter files and the role of the FBI, CIA, etc in the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Durham report which makes clear the collusion between the DNC and FBI, and now the testimony of FBI whistleblowers in Congress describing FBI involvement in the Jan. 6 incident (and more). Sure seems to me Cointelpro 2.0 is alive and well.

I’m seeing lots of shitlibs writing about his death and going into detail what his exposing the lies of the Vietnam war meant to them while in the same breath saying that Julian Assange is nothing like Ellsberg. In my view both exposed the lies our government has told us, but the PTB tied Julian to Russia and anyone who used to support him turned on his work just because they believe the lies. How dense do you have to be to not being able to see through the reason for why they did that? Russia didn’t cause the Hellabitch to lose to Trump. Her actions did that, but she couldn’t accept that people rejected her.

We owe both of them our gratitude.

Hedges writes about

The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism

Afternoon folks!

Well, another week, some more music... First up there's some blues - a live 1971 album from Taj Mahal, followed by a late 60's Otis Redding album. Then there's a bunch of blues-rock with Delaney & Bonnie, a live album from Rory Gallagher and yet some more Foghat. Then there's a change of pace with some bluegrass/americana from Tony Rice, some country-rock with The Flying Burrito Brothers (I'll probably post some more from this live album into the playlist next week sometime) and we finish off with an album from Tony Joe White.

Enjoy!

I'm linking an action alert from the EFF. If provides a quick and easy means to get involved on the side of sanity with respect to the runaway patent trolling industry.

https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=11923

From the Nixon Library:

Watergate Break-in, 50th Anniversary

June 17 marks the 50th anniversary of the break-in of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters located on the 6th floor of the Watergate Hotel and Office complex in Washington, DC. The investigation into the break-in exposed a number of controversial actions (collectively known as “Watergate”) that led to the highest levels of the Nixon administration and ultimately to the President himself.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

What does it say when your government cares more about the people of another nation than they do about the people they are supposed to represent? By care, I mean providing basic services.